Rider: Weight 98kg ,Level advanced)
Style: Freeriding race
Weather: 15 to 25 knots
Build Quality: 10/10
Satisfaction: 10/10
Disclosure: Buy all my own gear -

Waiting for my new 2012 CR race board to arrive from USA and landed in Perth AUS will be around $2500 if you order today. Sold my old CR board so No race board for 4 weeks, what a nightmare if no surf or light summer winds. But for last week and was lucky enough to be able to borrow an Airrush sector from Damo and had 4 - 5 sessions on board now and got it wired on open ocean coarse at Leighton about 3.5km. Choppy with small swell. Got to say I reckon few on race boards could keep up with a sector as its pretty hard to fall off, ( if you are a very good rider) in 15 to 25knots of wind. It rides easy & fast I got to 23 knots slight down wind, in open offshore choppy ocean, 18 knots straight down wind and 18 knots up wind. The board is super easy to ride, very stable and forgiving around coarse and stable at full speed. Whats amazing about the board is that you can squeeze another 2/3 degrees up wind if you ride 100% lit with big kite & drive off 4 chunky fins upwind with no loss of top speed. The board is a quad fin and as I am used to thruster set up found no real difference in riding. The board is 99% easier to ride than a hardcore CR race board and I'll say very similar times around a coarse for most riders. The top CR riders on pro gear will pull up wind another 3/4 degrees with more speed.
I also free rode in 15 knots off Leighton for 1hour with 13m kite and tacked out 5 km to offshore shipping bouys and up to harbour 4km up wind and back to beach with ease, most others on beach were having a hard time just staying up wind.

Cool board to freeride and travel the coast and or get the sweet taste CR racing - you get this baby wired and riding at 100% and you will smash most riders in a race

Then you will be ready to upgrade to a 100% CR race board.